the fall of the empire
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yamamanamaPyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Polonaise from Eugene Onegin
Johann Sebastian Bach: Concert for Two Violins in D Minor - The violinists are Romanian. I'd never think that because the name Jojatu sounds Finnish. I guess when you say it aloud (J in Romanian is ʒ, because Romanian wants to be different. They even prounce the letter C as "k" and not "ts" like every other Eastern European country (unless you count Turkey as Eastern European)) it does.
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no. 2
Aaron Copland: El salón México - I don't know what it is about Copland but his music and the acoustics do not get along at all.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherezade
I'm pretty sure I've heard all of these before and have already commented on them. Just don't bother googling it. Instead, here's a story about trains in Bucharest. Piața Romană Metro Station has platforms that are less than a meter wide. Because the train station had to be built in secret, see. Because Elena Ceaușescu said "that those damn lazy college students can just walk." Not with those exact words. I dunno, something in Romanian.
The train I took to get home was one of the old Red Line trains, still chugging along for a few more years. Seems like the new ones were built to specifications, they were just built to the wrong specifications. I blame techies, personally. Not deliberate sabotage because it's not just the new orange line trains, but because techies are really good at creating issues.
So, uh, here are some other thoughts:
I think that white centrists/liberals are creating a racial disparity by targeting blacks and Hispanics with anti-vax propaganda and then exploiting that disparity.
Here’s a taxonomy of anti-vaxxers.
1. Republican elites, disaffected liberals, politically homeless types who are themselves vaccinated but grifting is far too profitable or because they're benefiting from the pandemic or because they want to use the pandemic as an excuse to kill things off quietly. Why, I'm convinced that this whole fiasco with mask mandates in schools is a Chestertonian ploy to get rid of public schools entirely. Disaffected liberals and politically homeless who themselves advocate vaccinations but are a part of the feminist to fascist pipeline, like Daisy Deadhead, are not at all absolved of blame.
2. The above, but they’ve fallen for their own grift and are therefore unvaccinated. Tim Pool Abi Roberts and many many other TERFs fall into this category. I mean, it makes sense, right? It's all cynicism about BIG PHARMA.
3. People who think they know better than the experts because they work in the medical field or, you know, because they read a shit-ton of Golden Age science fiction. A lot of them are part of self-publishing author cliques. After all, Saint Heinlein and Saint Kipling would not mandate vaccine. As Kipling once said, "just as the Cow must be allowed to say 'moo,' the Pangolin must be allowed to spread His Disease."
4. People like L. Jagi Lamplighter who genuinely believe that vaccines are made from the souls of the unborn and the DNA of Nephilim and/or Nepharim. Sheep leading sheep.
I had this thought after seeing a bunch of things knocked over: yeah, definitely the Nephilim DNA injections.
Vox Day falls under type 2 and type 4.
Vox Day's blogspot account is gone and for now, the world is a slightly better place. I'm hoping it's permanent. But I get the feeling that they'll bring it back quietly.
I think the reason they banned him is because the anti-vax movement was becoming a liability for them. It sure as hell wasn't the racism or the stalking or the harassment campaigns.
Or, in the words of some asshole on 4 chan:
They SHUT DOWN Vox Day blogspot! THEY SHUT HIM DOWN!
Burning Question: Who wrote that shit, Smilin’ Cynthia McKinney?
Johann Sebastian Bach: Concert for Two Violins in D Minor - The violinists are Romanian. I'd never think that because the name Jojatu sounds Finnish. I guess when you say it aloud (J in Romanian is ʒ, because Romanian wants to be different. They even prounce the letter C as "k" and not "ts" like every other Eastern European country (unless you count Turkey as Eastern European)) it does.
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no. 2
Aaron Copland: El salón México - I don't know what it is about Copland but his music and the acoustics do not get along at all.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherezade
I'm pretty sure I've heard all of these before and have already commented on them. Just don't bother googling it. Instead, here's a story about trains in Bucharest. Piața Romană Metro Station has platforms that are less than a meter wide. Because the train station had to be built in secret, see. Because Elena Ceaușescu said "that those damn lazy college students can just walk." Not with those exact words. I dunno, something in Romanian.
The train I took to get home was one of the old Red Line trains, still chugging along for a few more years. Seems like the new ones were built to specifications, they were just built to the wrong specifications. I blame techies, personally. Not deliberate sabotage because it's not just the new orange line trains, but because techies are really good at creating issues.
So, uh, here are some other thoughts:
I think that white centrists/liberals are creating a racial disparity by targeting blacks and Hispanics with anti-vax propaganda and then exploiting that disparity.
Here’s a taxonomy of anti-vaxxers.
1. Republican elites, disaffected liberals, politically homeless types who are themselves vaccinated but grifting is far too profitable or because they're benefiting from the pandemic or because they want to use the pandemic as an excuse to kill things off quietly. Why, I'm convinced that this whole fiasco with mask mandates in schools is a Chestertonian ploy to get rid of public schools entirely. Disaffected liberals and politically homeless who themselves advocate vaccinations but are a part of the feminist to fascist pipeline, like Daisy Deadhead, are not at all absolved of blame.
2. The above, but they’ve fallen for their own grift and are therefore unvaccinated. Tim Pool Abi Roberts and many many other TERFs fall into this category. I mean, it makes sense, right? It's all cynicism about BIG PHARMA.
3. People who think they know better than the experts because they work in the medical field or, you know, because they read a shit-ton of Golden Age science fiction. A lot of them are part of self-publishing author cliques. After all, Saint Heinlein and Saint Kipling would not mandate vaccine. As Kipling once said, "just as the Cow must be allowed to say 'moo,' the Pangolin must be allowed to spread His Disease."
4. People like L. Jagi Lamplighter who genuinely believe that vaccines are made from the souls of the unborn and the DNA of Nephilim and/or Nepharim. Sheep leading sheep.
I had this thought after seeing a bunch of things knocked over: yeah, definitely the Nephilim DNA injections.
Vox Day falls under type 2 and type 4.
Vox Day's blogspot account is gone and for now, the world is a slightly better place. I'm hoping it's permanent. But I get the feeling that they'll bring it back quietly.
I think the reason they banned him is because the anti-vax movement was becoming a liability for them. It sure as hell wasn't the racism or the stalking or the harassment campaigns.
Or, in the words of some asshole on 4 chan:
They SHUT DOWN Vox Day blogspot! THEY SHUT HIM DOWN!
Burning Question: Who wrote that shit, Smilin’ Cynthia McKinney?
